"Jonathan S. Katz" <jk...@postgresql.org> writes: > I don't know how frequently issues around "max_stack_depth" being too > small are reported -- I'd be curious to know that -- but I don't have > any strong arguments against allowing the behavior you describe based on > our current docs.
I can't recall any recent gripes on our own lists, but the issue was top-of-mind for me after discovering that NetBSD defaults "ulimit -s" to 2MB on at least some platforms. That would leave us setting max_stack_depth to something less than that, probably about 1.5MB. regards, tom lane